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Imagery In Wheatley's Poem

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Starting with the " To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth" which theme happens to be a poetic statement that Wheatley makes of gratitude and admiration towards the Crown of the Colonial government , in which she finds herself subjected to praising the unlikely of a bureaucratic appointment. As Wheatley states in her poem; "Though praise immortal crowns the patriot 's name, But to conduct to heavens refulgent fane," this line shows how she gradually composes a thematic ground into imagery towards the heavens and shinning temples, to those who are reading this (line 39-41).She was a very intelligent writer who uses metamorphically symbols to include her Christianity beliefs to dispense her way of thought to others. To continue she

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